She must be gradually led to consider sex as a "natural" phenomenon before she can be made to accept the sexual components revealed by her dreams as a part of her personality. Repressed homosexualism is perhaps even harder to reveal to the subject. I have found my task infinitely simpler when the subject had done a good deal of reading along psychoanalytic lines or had attended many lectures on the subject. In fact it is my conviction that when psychoanalytic books are read by a larger proportion of the population, thousands of "sex" cases will disappear, together with the absurd fears based on ignorance which are responsible for many a mental upset. Interpreting a subject's dreams is the best known means of probing and sounding his unconscious, but in the majority of cases it only helps indirectly in treating the case. When we deal with nightmares, however, the results are more direct and more rapidly attained. A nightmare interpreted rightly will never recur, or if it does, WILL NOT FRIGHTEN OR AWAKEN THE SUBJECT. Insight will develop which, even in the sleeping state, will enable the subject to recognize that his dream is only a dream and to sleep on undisturbed. A patient who was often terrorized by a dream in which some man stabbed him in the back, gradually came to recognize his unconscious homosexual leanings and analysed the nightmare in his sleep when it occurred again with excellent results. It did not frighten him and gradually disappeared, being replaced by grosser dreams devoid of anxiety. A patient was bothered by dreams in which he was repelling onslaughts of large beasts with a walking stick or an umbrella which invariably broke and which he was always trying to tip with iron rods or tacks. He finally gained insight into his unconscious fear of impotence which was dispelled by a visit at a specialist's office. Not only did that nightmare disappear but very soon after, his dreams changed to visions of successful sex-gratification. Dream insight based upon the personality of the analyst should not be considered as real insight. When a patient reports, "I dreamt that I was a baby but remembered that Mr. Tridon would call that a regression dream and I awoke," or, "I felt that Mr. Tridon would characterize the whole thing as a masochistic performance and awoke," much work remains to be done. The dreamer must _know_ that his nightmare is a symbol and not merely know that his analyst would call it a symbol.